As expected, Motocross Madness has excellent graphics (It is 3D only
remember). The graphics are slightly better than they were in Monster Truck Madness 2 and
that's saying something, on my PC I had all graphic details etc up at their highest and
ran the game in 800x600 mode. The length you could see in the distance was highly
impressive and much further than I expected it would be, the animation on all the bikers
and bikes is great, each stunt has its only detailed animation.

As per usual, there are a number of different graphical options to choose
from depending on the speed of your PC. They range from Particles to adding the Stadium or
Sky backgrounds. You can also cycle through a number of different views while playing.

MCM also has some pretty good "rock" tracks on the CD too, these
help to raise your adrenaline when racing against friends or enemies on multiplayer mode.
The motorbike sounds have been sampled from real Motocross bikes so they are also of the
highest quality. MCM also fully supports the Dolby Surround Sound system.

Gameplay and Controls

This is where MCM excels itself, this is yet again a really enjoyable
racing game released by Microsoft. There is really only one aim in this game, and that is
to have as much fun as possible. The real fun is, of course, on the multiplayer side. You
can race via a LAN, modem, or via the Internet Gaming Zone.....especially when playing the
Moto-Tag event. Below is a list of Events that are included in the game.

Supercross - Race the
tracks the pros would create to test their opponents and get maximum speed and air time.

National Race - Dig deep to
take the lead in Motocross courses out in the wilderness.

Baja - Rip through wide
open spaces, quarries, canyons and deserts.

Stunt Quarry - Excavated
for maximum air time and bar-banging action.

Moto-Tag - Last one touched
is it! (Multiplayer only)

Easily the most enjoyable single player event (to me at least) is the
Stunt Quarry. The aim of this is to do as many stunts as possible in a set amount of time,
the more impressive the stunt, the more points you get. You race against a number of other
bikers (up to 8 I believe) and the winner is the one with the highest amount of points at
the end of the race.

Motocross Madness is also one of the first games to fully support the new
Microsoft Freestyle Pro joypad. So you now only have to move the joypad to steer left or
right, very cool indeed. Playing via a joystick is also pretty easy to use, you have the
basic left, right, accelerate and brake, and you also have a couple of stunt buttons When
you press one of the stunt buttons, you move a certain direction with the joystick to do a
certain stunt, for example...Pressing stunt button 1 and pushing forward makes your biker
do a "Heel Clicker" move.

All in all, there are not many non-violent games around at the moment that
are more enjoyable to play than Motocross Madness and with a track editor included with
the package, this game has some great re-play value.